PFN builds hospital in Anambra

Anambra state Governor Peter Obi has found good partnership in the body of firebrand churches.

Obi is hailed for his sundry efforts in growing and rebranding the state. Now, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has stepped in to lend a helping hand, building an ultra-modern hospital in Amawbia, a community in the state.

The hospital is known as Jesus our Physician Specialist Hospital located along Onitsha-Enugu Expressway.

The governor inaugurated the facility, said to be the first of its kind not only in the Southeast but also in the entire country.

Obi, who expressed happiness at the group’s commitment to healthcare, promised to tar the link road to the hospital from the expressway. He also promised to donate an ambulance to the hospital.

He said further that such a venture is what his administration had been preaching in the state, adding that it has indicated that PFN is a group to partner with any time.

Chairman of the group in the state, Bishop David Eberechukwu, told Newsextra that the hospital is a spiritual one where medical workers care but God heals.

The specialist hospital has 32 private wards, in addition to an administrative block as well as quarters for doctors and nurses, equipped with standard facilities valued at over N100m.

Before now, the group began construction of the hospital somewhere in Awka before a group of military men stormed the arena and destroyed it on the orders of their boss, who claimed to own the land.

However, despite the distraction, the group was able to complete the project in record time of about one year after losing an initial N70m.

Eberechukwu also told Newsextra that the Obi administration allocated about eight plots of land to the group in Awka.

He said the group decided to embark on capacity building for the ministers of the gospel through the establishment of transformation and leadership schools for young ministers in Anambra State.

He disclosed further that the dream of PFN is to open three hospitals and three schools in each of the senatorial zones in Anambra State.

According to him, the hospital is not meant for members of PFN and their families alone. Rather, it is a hospital for all and sundry not only in the state but beyond.

“We want to put smiles on the face of God and the people of this state. We believe in God and that is why integrity is our watchword.

“We want to make healthcare available to the people. We are missionary-minded; this place is not for money-making as is speculated but a place to serve God and humanity,” he said.

Eberechukwu further said that the hospital would be a home delivery one where the ambulance would pick the sick persons from their homes to the hospital.

Also, it has special outpatient ward, dental section fully equipped, cardiology equipment, X-ray facility among others and most importantly, the HIV unit which is always in contact with the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, manned by Dr Onyekachi Nwoye.

There are other men of God who made sure that the dream became a reality. They are Bishop Vin Nzeakor, who is the PFN Vice-Chairman, Rev Uba Nebo and Dr Joseph Ajujungwa who is the South-East Public Relations Officer of the group, among others.

For Dr. Joseph Ajujungwa who is also the Secretary of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Enugu State, there are other numerous projects PFN in South- East would soon embark on.

However, Eberechukwu thanked people like PFN SAC/SEC, Bro Obumselu, Dr Foster Ihejiofor and Pastor Emma Obiora and the family of Erinne of Okija and Project Cure, Colorado, USA for their support.